'Russell04'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Russell of Chequers, Russell of Chippenham, Russell of Fordham, Russell of Yaverland
Thomas Russell of Yaverland, Isle of Wight (d 1501) | |||||||||||||||
1. | ?? Russell | ||||||||||||||
Not certain on number of intervening generations. | |||||||||||||||
A. | Maurice Russell of Yaverland | ||||||||||||||
i. | William Russell of Yaverland & Surrey | ||||||||||||||
a. | Sir William Russell, 1st Bart of Chippenham, Cambridgeshire (bur 03.02.1653/4, Treasurer of the Navy) | ||||||||||||||
m1. (sp) Elizabeth Cherry (bpt 28.07.1588, dau of Sir Francis Cherry of Camberwell by Margery, dau of Harry Haywood) | |||||||||||||||
m2. (by 1616) Elizabeth Gerard (bur 14.10.1626, dau of Thomas Gerard of Burwell) | |||||||||||||||
(1) | Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Bart of Chippenham (b c1616, bur 30.04.1664, Colonel) | ||||||||||||||
Lipscomb identifies Francis's younger half-brother William as the 2nd Bart and Francis as the 3rd Bart, apparently not knowing that William was created a Baronet independently. Consequently, Lipscomb hereafter numbers the baronetcies differently from other sources. | |||||||||||||||
m. (19.09.1631) Catherine Wheatley (dau of John Wheatley of Catesfield or Catsfield by Elizabeth, dau of Michael Smallpage of Chichester) | |||||||||||||||
(A) | Sir John Russell, 3rd Bart of Chippenham (bpt 06.10.1640, bur 24.03.1669) | ||||||||||||||
m. (c04.1663) Frances (not Elizabeth) Cromwell (bpt 06.12.1638, d 27.01.1720, dau of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector) | |||||||||||||||
The following is supported by FMG (vol 2, Cromwell). | |||||||||||||||
(i) | Sir William Russell, 4th Bart of Chippenham, later of Hampton (b 1657-8, bur 16.09.1707) | ||||||||||||||
Lipscomb shows that William dsp (no wife shown) with the following William & Francis being sons of this William's brother John. BEB1844 & TCB show that they were sons of this William by ... | |||||||||||||||
m. Catharine Gore of Ireland | |||||||||||||||
(a) | Sir William Russell, 5th Bart (dsp 05.1738) | ||||||||||||||
(b) | Sir Francis Russell, 6th Bart | ||||||||||||||
m. (1725) Ann Gee | |||||||||||||||
((1)) | Sir William Russell, 7th Bart (d unm 1757) | ||||||||||||||
(c) | Mary Russell (d unm 12.1735) | ||||||||||||||
(ii) | Richard Russell (b 13.06.1672, d 1731, Major General) | ||||||||||||||
m1. Mabel Russell (dau of Gerard Russell of Fordham) @@ below | |||||||||||||||
(a) | Mary Russell (a 1734) | ||||||||||||||
m. Rev. _ Mills | |||||||||||||||
m2. Catherine Barton | |||||||||||||||
(iii) | John Russell, Governor of Fort William, Bengal (b 14.10.1670, d 05.12.1735) | ||||||||||||||
m1. (17.12.1691) Rebecca Eyre (b c1671, d 1713, dau of Sir Charles Eyre of Kew) | |||||||||||||||
(a) | Charles Russell (b 08.01.1701, d 20.11.1754, Colonel) | ||||||||||||||
m. (1737) Mary Johanna Cutts Rivett (b 1707, d 05.1764, dau of Col. (George) Rivett by Johanna, dau of John Thurbane of Chequers) | |||||||||||||||
((1)) | Sir John Russell of Chequers Court, 8th Bart (b 31.10.1741, d 07.08.1783) | ||||||||||||||
m. (25.10.1775) Catherine Carey (b c1749, d 26.12.1782, dau of General George Carey) | |||||||||||||||
((A)) | Sir John Russell, 9th Bart (b 06.05.1777/9, d unm 11.06.1802) | ||||||||||||||
((B)) | Sir George Russell, 10th Bart (b 15.04.1780/1, dsp 25.04.1804) | ||||||||||||||
((2)) | Mary Russell (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
(b) | Frances Russell (b 06.01.1699, dsp 1775) | ||||||||||||||
m. John Rivett or Revett of Checkers (Chequers) | |||||||||||||||
(c) | Mary Russell (b 06.08.1701, dsp 12.1735) | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Holmes in the East Indies | |||||||||||||||
(d) | Elizabeth Russell (b 20.07.1704) | ||||||||||||||
m. Samuel Greenhill of Swincombe (d before 23.01.1749-50) | |||||||||||||||
((1)) | Charles Greenhill (d young) | ||||||||||||||
((2)) | John Russell Greenhill of Cotisford House, later of Chequers (b c1729, d 20.12.1813, rector of Fringford & Marsh Gibbon) | ||||||||||||||
m. (05.07.1753) Elizabeth Noble (d 06.1807, dau of Matthew Noble of Durham/Sunderland) | |||||||||||||||
((A)) | Sir Robert Greenhill, later Russell, Bart of Chequers (d unm 12.1836, MP) | ||||||||||||||
m2. (07.09.1715) Johanna Thurbone (dau of Guy Thurbone or Thurban of Checkers) | |||||||||||||||
(e) | Ann Cromwell Russell (d 1717) | ||||||||||||||
(iv) | Christian Russell (bur 28.08.1669) | ||||||||||||||
(v) | Elizabeth Russell (b 04.11.1664, d 20.07.1733) | ||||||||||||||
m. (02.1682-3) Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd Bart of Thirkleby (d 30.10.1726) | |||||||||||||||
(B) | Robert Russell of Mildenhall (b 21.10.1644) | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Soame (dau/coheir of Thomas Soame of Thurlow) | |||||||||||||||
(C) | Gerard Russell (b 02.01.1645) | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Yanker or Yonker of Hamburgh | |||||||||||||||
(D) | Killephet Russell (b 11.03.1652, 5th son) | ||||||||||||||
(i) | Francis Russell (bur 01.10.1689) | ||||||||||||||
(E) | Elizabeth Russell | ||||||||||||||
m. (1665) Henry Cromwell of Spinney Abbey, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b 20.01.1627) | |||||||||||||||
(F) | Sarah Russell (bpt 24.08/19.09.1639, bur 16.11.1715) | ||||||||||||||
m1. Sir John Reynolds of Cambridgeshire (d 05.12.1657, CIC Flanders) | |||||||||||||||
m2. (1660) Henry O'Brien, 7th Earl of Thomond (b c1620, d 02.05.1691) | |||||||||||||||
(G) | Catherine Russell (bpt 23.12.1641) | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Sheers of Hertfordshire | |||||||||||||||
(H) | Frances Russell (bpt 18.11.1649) | ||||||||||||||
m. John Hagar of Bourn | |||||||||||||||
(I) | Ann Russell (bpt 14.07.1650) | ||||||||||||||
m. Henry Underwood of Wittlesey | |||||||||||||||
(D) | other issue - Killephet (b 21.04.1647, bur 16.04.1650), Edward (bpt 12.10.1654), Sarah (b 03.05.1637, d infant 1637) | ||||||||||||||
(2) | Sir William 'the Black' Russell of St. Edmundsbury, Norfolk (dsps) | ||||||||||||||
m. Anne Bendish (d 10.08.1707, relict of _ Robinson) | |||||||||||||||
(A) | daughter (d infant) | ||||||||||||||
(3) | George Russell of Fordham, Cambridgeshire (b c1619, d 07.12.1682) | ||||||||||||||
m1. Mary Cherry of Surrey | |||||||||||||||
(A) | William Russell of Fordham (bur 26.06.1701, 3rd son) | ||||||||||||||
m. Elizabeth Cromwell (b 1660, dau of Henry Cromwell of Spinney Abbey, Lord Deputy of Ireland) | |||||||||||||||
The following has been supplemented by input from FMG (vol 2, Cromwell). | |||||||||||||||
(i) | Francis Russell (bpt 19.01.1691) | ||||||||||||||
(a) | Thomas Russell (bpt 27.02.1724) | ||||||||||||||
((1)) | William Russell (d before 1804) | ||||||||||||||
((2)) | Rebecca Russell (d 17.01.1832) | ||||||||||||||
m1. (sp) James Horley | |||||||||||||||
m2. William Dyer of Ilford (d 17.01.1824) | |||||||||||||||
(ii) | Elizabeth Russell (d 05.11.1675) | ||||||||||||||
FMG & Lipscomb show Elizabeth as married to Robert D'Aye of Soham and her sister Mary as married to Martin Wilkins of Soham. A contributor (NC, 07.09.08) kindly provided us with a copy of a gravestone which shows that it was Mary who married Robert D'Aye. We presume that it was Elizabeth who married ... | |||||||||||||||
m. Martin Wilkins of Soham | |||||||||||||||
(iii) | Mary Russell (b 18.01.1689?, 2nd) | ||||||||||||||
m. Robert D'Aye of Soham | |||||||||||||||
(iv) | Margaret Russell | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Peachey | |||||||||||||||
(v) | daughter | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Nelson of Mildenhall | |||||||||||||||
(vi)+ | other issue - Gerard (b 1682), O'Brian (bpt 17.10.1684, dsp), Henry (b 10.10.1685), John (b 12.1688, d 23.03.1694-5), William (b 06.12.1689), Francis (b 19.01.1691-2), Edward (b 14.03.1693, d 10.08.1694), Thomas (b 31.08.1695, dsp), Frances (b 15.12.1686), Jane (b 15.06.1687-8), Mary (b c10.1689, d 16.01.1690) | ||||||||||||||
(B)+ | other issue (dsp) - Killiphett (d unm bur 01.08.1677), Gerard (dsp), John, b c1661, a 1684), Cherry (d young) | ||||||||||||||
m2. (21.08.1671) Mabel Lloyd (bur 01.09.1674, dau of Hugh Lloyd of Fordham) | |||||||||||||||
(F) | Mabel Russell (bpt 15.08.1673) | ||||||||||||||
m. (05.04.1693) Richard Russell @@ above | |||||||||||||||
(4) | Elizabeth Russell | ||||||||||||||
m1. Edward Lewknor of Denham | |||||||||||||||
m2. John Gauden, Bishop of Exeter, later of Worcester (b 1605, d 23.05.1662) | |||||||||||||||
(5) | Anne Russell | ||||||||||||||
m. John Bodvile (not Colvil) of Bodvile Castle (Colonel) | |||||||||||||||
(6) | Sarah Russell | ||||||||||||||
m. Sir Thomas (not William) Chichley of Wimpole | |||||||||||||||
(7)+ | other issue - Edward (bur 10/19.07.1647), Robert (bur 17.02.1640), John (bpt 31.01.1623, d infant), John (bpt 29.11.1624, dsp, Colonel), son | ||||||||||||||
m3. (12.04.1628) Elizabeth Smallpage (dau/heir of Michael Smallpage of Chichester (by Katherine, dau of William Devenish of Helingley), widow of John Wheatley of Catesfield) | |||||||||||||||
(11) | William Russell (bpt 07.12.1621, d infant) | ||||||||||||||
(12) | Sir William Russell, Bart of Langherne (Langharne, Carmarthenshire) (d by 1714) | ||||||||||||||
m. Hesther Rouse (d before 03.09.1717, dau of Sir Thomas Rouse, Bart of Rouse Lench, by Jane Ferrers) | |||||||||||||||
(A) | Mary Russell | ||||||||||||||
m1. Hugh Calveley Cotton | |||||||||||||||
m2. Arthur Somerset | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s): Lipscomb (Bucks, vol 2, 'Pedigree of Russell of Chequer's Court', p195+), BEB1844 (Russell of Chippenham) with a little support from BEB1844 (Russell of Langherne), TCB (vol ii, 'Russell of Chippenham', p65+)
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